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| | United States 2000 Census - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The United States 2000 Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the. |
 | | The Bureau also enumerated the residents of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; its population was 3,808,610, an 8.1 percent increase over the number from a decade earlier. |
 | | Since 1790, the first census, the decennial count has been the basis for the United States representative form of government. |
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